The dow coming off its first close ever above 30,000. Still down 180 a lot of focus continues to be on the socalled cyclical trade, energy, banks, airlines all pacing for their best month ever rob, its good to see you again. I come to you first because your note to our producer today really piqued my interest. The last three weeks, you say, were transformational. How so i think going into this, scott, we did not have a prospect for a stimulus plan it pivoted focus to the virus and the virus count really, really increasing. Since then youve had three months of very, very positive news on the virus front. Youve had an election outcome that appears to be more and more benign with the actions of the with the actions of our president elect. Specifically nominating janet yellen it looks like it was an outcome that was squarely middle of the fairway that was not too far left, not too far right. Really goldilocks like from my perspective. Now youre at a place where when you look at major pivot
Than 1 as many of the cloud and socalled stayathome stocks get hit. It was the announcement that Pfizers Covid vaccine is more than 90 efficient thats what really set the market on fire we got more on that in a minute. Meantime, lets send it over to kelly. Thank you, sir. It is a huge day for the markets and a potentially historic one in a fight against the Chris Christie we have full Team Coverage for you. Bob pisani looking for the market reaction. Meg tirelli and bob pisani, lets start with you historic move for the s p 500 and big volume were going to do twice normal volume on the markets. We havent seen that recently, big volume on big up days. Thats a change on market sentiment. You mentioned small caps obviously vaccine, better reopening story. That would help small caps, look at this up almost 7 more than twice the performance of the s p 500 mega cap out of big cap, mega cap tech stocks and into small cap but also a little bit on the weak side as weve been noting all throughout
From facebook. Julia boorstin has been following the story. Its two reactive and slow about the hate speech. Auditors saying they watched the company make painful decisions that are serious setbacks and has not devoted enough assets to address these issues this report advocating they bring in more civil rights experts to the country, take steps to address concerns dedispute that post violating facebooks broader policies. Sheryl sandberg responding to the findings as hard as its been to expos o they echo the criticisms by the civil rights a groups behind the boycott that met with facebook management yesterday. They called the meeting disappointing. Now, facebook has said it would not fall not fold for pressure, but it does seem they could be compelled to take some of the recommendations. Julia, thank you. Lets get to steve weiss steve, it looks like facebook is under a lot of pressure when it comes to the issues of up civil rights and hate speech. It is im sticking with it ultimately i
And the fed will get to zero pretty quickly. They are in a nowin situation. Had they not done anything the market would have been disappointed i think stocks are higher a year from today, at the end of the year. I am looking to raise my target i am at 3440 my notice for earn something 172. I think they cut 50 at the next meeting in just two weeks i think thats going to happen and thats where we begin our debate today, what i think is the only one that matters. The coronavirus and whether it was a blip or a black swan and what that means for where stocks may go from here we will attempt to answer that question today with our Investment Committee committee and another guest vinny viola. Joe terranova, stephanie link, josh brown, steve tubin. We will lean on him today to find out what he is telling clients. Stocks and bond yields plunging. The stock off its lows, still a loss of 550 points you tell me, is this a blip or a black swan a blip, stocks are voweler inible, they may go down well
Ready to go. Halftime report starts now. Welcome good to have you with us on this monday our Investment Committee is here with us. Chief Investment Officer at boston private wealth. Begin with stocks battling back heightened tensions in the middle east continue to drive trading. Watching gold, oil hit highest level. Weis, happy new year, havent heard from you in a few weeks. The question we have today, are the risks becoming too big to overcome this rally . I dont think so. I dont regard happening in iran as geopolitical risk a factor. Weve seen it so many times before markets have gone through it if oil has a sustained rally and moves higher, that will impact the economic picture particularly in europe i dont see that happening either were the large zest producer. We can measure demand to meet prices to me a bigger risk that just came out is bolton testifying in congress in the impeachment hearing. Youre reading news its literally just crossing the tape we might as well tell everybody